Jade Room Restaurant - Tropical Peking Style Steamboat Buffet

#02-01 Hotel Royal
36 Newton Road
Tel: 6251 8135, 6254 8587, 6254 8603
Opening Hours: 11.30am to 3pm; 6.30pm to 11pm
Website: http://www.jaderoom.com.sg/profile.htm

Diners can choose from 32 items, including sea cucumber, fresh prawns and peking dumpling, which they then cook steamboat style. The dipping sauce in particular stands out. For those who want more, 10 cooked dishes are also available.

Prices are unbelievably good value for money:-

1. Lunch: $13.80+++(adult) and $9+++(child) (weekdays)
2. Lunch: $16.80+++(adult) and $9+++(child) (weekends, eves and public holidays)
3. Dinner: $18.80+++(adult) and $12+++(child) (weekdays)
4. Dinner: $19.80+++(adult) and $12+++(child) (weekends, eves and public holidays)

• If you pay using UOB Credit Card, you get 10% off a-la-carte menu.

Coca Steamboat

• #04-22 Ngee Ann City, Tel: 6734-7887
• #02-05 International Building, Tel: 6738-2588
• #02-28/30 The Concourse, Tel: 6295-3611

All outlets open between 11am and 11pm daily. Price $16 - $18 per person for buffet lunch; $26 - $30 for buffet dinner, depending on which outlet.

First set up in 1987 in Chinatown, this franchise chain from a Thai restaurant group is most famous for its chilli sauce. It is made from a highly guarded secret recipe from Bangkok, which includes sesame seeds, coriander and a little soya sauce. This chain is also famous for being the first here to introduce “fish glue” – fish paste that turns delightfully chewy when cooked. Its meatballs, made from fish, prawn, beef and chicken, are also hand-made every morning at the outlets to ensure freshness. It offers two types of soup: chicken stock and tom yam.

• If you pay using DBS Amex Card, you get 15% discount on total bill (lunch/dinner). Available only at International Building.

Note: This review was taken from ST Foodies Club.

Yuki Yaki

• #03-2110 Marina Square
  Tel: 6737 9680
  Opening Hours: 12 noon to 9pm daily


• #02-11 Orchard Cineleisure
  Tel: 6737 9680
  Opening Hours: 12 Noon to 10.30pm, Sun to Thu; 12 Noon to 2am, Fri, Sat & Public Holidays


• Website: http://www.sukigroup.com.sg/yuki-yaki.htm

Yuki Yaki introduces the first Do-It-Yourself steamboat, Teppanyaki & Ice Cream Buffet, bringing you into a era of new age dining.

Each table in Yuki Yaki is equipped with two in-built stoves for steamboat and teppanyaki. Diners can enjoy a wide selection of more than 90 mouth watering food items. Seafood items like half shell scallops, mussels, sea cucumber, salmon, prawns, cuttlefish etc. Meat items like beef, chicken, lamb, pork etc. Yong Tau Foo items and fresh vegetables and many more.

After one enjoys its main course, its’ time for deserts! The Teppanyaki Pan is thoroughly cleansed by the service staff and the thermostat adjusted to a cold temperature, ready for ice cream making. Choose from a generous variety of ice cream flavours and your can start enjoying your ice cream. Truly a revolutionized experience.

It sounds fun but the one thing I don’t like about this restaurant is that they impose on me a time frame. 2.5 hours if I order a buffet with ice cream and 2 hours if it’s without ice cream.

• For holders of Diners Club credit card, spend a min. of S$80 and get a S$5 voucher for your next visit; spend a min. of S$150 and get a S$10 voucher for your next visit. This promotion is valid from 15 Aug 2007 to 15 Sep 2007. The voucher is valid until 15 Oct 2007.

Tian Wai Tian Fish Steamboat

• 1382/1383 Serangoon Road (off Opal Crescent)
  Opening Hours: 11am to 2pm, 6pm to 11pm, Mon to Fri
  4.30pm to 11pm, Sat & Sun & Public Holidays
• lk 638 Veerasamy Road #01-101
  Yi He Eating House
  Tel : 6392 3233
  Opening Hours: 5pm to 2am

I have personally tried this but I ate at the Serangoon Road outlet which is the de facto outlet.

The die die must try dish here would be their famous fish head steamboat because the soup was a heady concoction of fresh promfret fish slices and chunks, yam, seaweed, lettuce and fried flat fish pieces for that extra oomph, kept piping hot and boiling by the traditional method of burning charcoal, which the Chinese believe gives food a different taste compared to gas stoves. You can even choose the kind of fish you want for your steamboat - whether you prefer the promfret fish or the red garoupa or other varieties depending on availability. You can even ask for additional soup if your soup level runs low.

Another must try dishes would be their fried kang kong with cuttlefish and the fried har choy (deep-fried beancurd skin roll wrapped with shrimp meat filling and eaten with a dab of sweet honey plum sauce).

Oh, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Waiting hour during peak period is more than an hour. Go and order before you get hungry. Else, to beat the crowd, go as soon as this place opens.